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13-letter words containing t, u, d

  • fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • fouta djallon — a highland pastoral region in West Africa, in central Guinea, also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 30,000 sq. mi. (77,700 sq. km).
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
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